Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often flew out their friends such as the McNulties , Cliffords or Pollocks , to stay for a weekend , and the friends invariably shared the aeroplane with baskets of food and Jenny , the cook . |
| 2 | In summer the estate became the home of colonies of house martins and swallows . |
| 3 | But when he became leader of the Unionist Party , he also became the target for accusations of vacillating leadership . |
| 4 | The authorities did not approach the local general practitioner in the village of St Margaret 's Hope , the village on South Ronaldsay which became the focus of allegations of abuse . |
| 5 | I appreciate this is not in quite the form you asked the question , but you asked the question in terms of the differences apart from migration considerations . |
| 6 | David Perry , 35 , of Buttermere Avenue , Orford , Gary Toony , 25 , of Kendal Avenue , Orford , and Steven Lea , 27 , of St David 's Drive , Callands , all Warrington , admitted the theft of cases of whisky at the town 's Crown Court . |
| 7 | It openly evoked the example of the Soviet dissidents , and voiced the despair of liberals of varying shades at what had happened to the fabric of British society since 1979 . |
| 8 | Dawn ‘ beat the twilight into flakes of fire ’ as I cycled up Gleann Meinich . |
| 9 | The police provided the press with details of the case , which appeared to implicate , among others , Giovanni Lo Cascio of the Corleonesi clan of the Mafia . |
| 10 | The rights issue also helped the company to balances of £12.5m with borrowings of £6.6m . |
| 11 | An attempt in March to arrest Rodolfo Aguinaldo , the former Governor of Cagayan , led to a small rebellion which , although easily crushed , continued to demonstrated the unreliability of sections of the armed forces [ see p. 37320 ] . |
| 12 | Although the work of Barnard and Cooper ( 1983 ) demonstrated the relationship between areas of high reflectance , inversion axes and the occurrence of gas fields , they restricted their discussion of absolute amounts of uplift to the Cleveland Basin area . |
| 13 | Described the sequence of stages of strategic planning . |
| 14 | Chapter 3 described the web of relationships of pre-colonial societies in which kinship was the prime determinant of obligation and responsibility . |
| 15 | In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics . |
| 16 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
| 17 | I therefore lined the guttering with sections of emergency foil blanket . |
| 18 | The latter involved the subsumption by concepts of social reality . |
| 19 | The technique , known as damascening , involved the addition of inlays of threads of silver and gold to bronze blades and hilts , and set off by patches or pools of black enamel ; the designs depicted hunting scenes ( Figure 10 ) . |
| 20 | This process involved the addition of doses of lime and soda ash which after a time led to precipitation of the hardness salts . |
| 21 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 22 | The process involved the burning of nodules of calciferous clay to form a cement which was strong and durable and could withstand damp . |
| 23 | After Caesar 's assassination in 44 BC his heir Octavian radically changed the style of portraits of Roman rulers . |
| 24 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 25 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 26 | Ludo and I just took one side each and approached every table with snapshots of Tamsin . |
| 27 | On May 1 , 1991 , however , the USA suspended a ban on imports of European wines , which it had imposed in February 1990 because of the use in Europe of procymidone pesticides against fungus infestations . |
| 28 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 29 | Instead , he promised a halving of imports of rolled steel products , chemicals , pipes and paper , which the Soviet Union could produce itself . |
| 30 | A LOVESICK Frenchwoman plastered a town with pictures of her English sweetheart only to discover he was married . |